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Atheist at Fort Riley reports death threatFort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USAAn atheist soldier who's accusing the military of violating religious freedoms has received a death threat, the leader of a foundation involved in the ...

Palin used state funds for trip to speak at her former churchMcClatchy Washington Bureau - Washington,DC,USA
There was no violation of the constitutional separation of church and state in Palin's appearance and remarks, she said. "Public officials travel and speak ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has proposed a new rule that will limit the rights of women to receive medically accurate information and treatment. The alleged goal of the rule is to protect the rights of health care workers, volunteers, and trainees...

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'Heretics Barbecue' gathers skepticsFresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
Sometimes, it's not easy being an atheist in the Fresno area. Boyd knows this, which is one of the reasons he helped form the Central Valley Alliance of ...

Non-religious students find camaraderieBoise State University The Arbiter Online - Boise,ID,USA
Being an atheist himself, and knowing that there were no groups on campus that supported his world-view, Lowe decided to make the BSSSA. ...

NBA Essentials: Starbury and GodlessnessFanHouse - New York,NY,USA
A journalist discusses atheism with Stephon Marbury in a South Carolina hotel room. Key point of debate from Starbury: "... Why does green mean that's the ...

Atheist's bizarre bid to convert ChristianEast Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich,England,UK
AN ATHEIST subjected a devout Christian woman to a "relentless" campaign of harassment in which he smeared dog faeces on her car and urinated on her ...

The Naked and the Dead: Julian Barnes's 'Nothing To Be Frightened Of'New York Sun - United States
"I don't believe in God, but I miss Him" is how the book opens; later Mr. Barnes tells us he used to be an atheist and now is an agnostic. ...

EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D.Palin's religious views follow evangelical modelMinneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Even by its new name of Intelligent Design their arguments don't hold water. There great argument against evolution is that no one has actually observed it ...

Spore: creationism or science? Your world and welcome to itScientific American - USA
Early critics note that the game raises interesting questions about intelligent design (or creationism) v. evolution. "With both evolution and 'creator ...

Evolving Creationism in the ClassroomScientific American - USAIn the past, proponents of creationism have tried to sell it as "creation science" or "intelligent design"—the idea that life is too complex to have evolved ...

Tracking the evolution of a cold stress associated gene family in ...7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Even though the ice re-crystallisation inhibition function of these proteins has been studied extensively in vitro, little is known about the evolution of ...

Animal bones offer clues to evolutionBoston Globe - United States
He uses the example of evolution and how new discoveries led to new thinking about the relationships of different species, determined by patterns observed ...

Encounter Of A Different Kind: Rosetta Observes Asteroid At Close Quarters

ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2008) — ESA's comet chaser, Rosetta, has flown by a small body in the main asteroid belt, asteroid Steins, collecting a wealth of information about this rare type of minor Solar System body...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2008) — What is it that distinguishes humans from other mammals? The answer to this question lies in the neocortex – the part of the brain responsible for sensory perceptions, conscious thought, and language...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — An international team, led by astronomers at the MIT Haystack Observatory, has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — Ever seen or heard something that wasn't there? For most of us such experiences - termed hallucinations - are a normal, fleeting, brain glitch; yet for a few they are persistent, distressing and associated with a range of psychiatric, neurological and eye conditions...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species...

Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — A Université Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic, are published in the most recent issue of Psychosomatic Medicine...

Prayer Day funds decried; Church-state issue citedWhittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
By Airan Scruby, Staff Writer PICO RIVERA - A National Day of Prayer celebration sponsored by the city may have violated the separation of church and state, ...

Fla. court tosses ballot attempts to allow public religion fundingUSA Today - USA
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State and the Anti-Defamation League, which supported the plaintiff in the case, hailed the ruling. ..

Sermons For Separation: Ohio Pastor Counters Religious Right ...Americans United - Washington,DC,USA
That'sa really bad idea, of course, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State has already announced plans to file complaints with the Internal ...

Palin: The Most Extremist Candidate Since GoldwaterHuffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Palin's statement closely mirrors the language of "Teach the Controversy", the slogan of the intelligent design campaign, under which evolution's ...

Major Christian Organization Backs Military Watchdog's ...The Public Record - Los Angeles,California,USA
Committed to the separation of church and state, CCCI has acknowledged a pervasive evangelizing in and by the US Military that has dire consequences to our ...

Ban on Political Endorsements by Pastors TargetedWashington Post - United States
.. today to stop the protest before it starts, calling the ADF's "Pulpit Initiative" an assault on the rule of law and the separation of church and state. ...

Ohio ministers challenge political pulpit planThe Associated Press -
.. Indiana, Iowa and other states said the actions by the Alliance Defense Fund jeopardize the constitutional separation of church and state. ...

Alaska Shrugs Off Palin's FaithNational Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
"But notions of Church and state separation are taken very seriously," Prof. Campbell said. "People believe that religion is not going to overtly manifest ...

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